Maunie of Ardwall - Day 4 and Maunie's first catch
A little additional news from today for you – at lunchtime Fergus announced
that he thought it was time to go fishing so he attached a green plastic squid
lure to the new line, purchased in Las Palmas and loaded onto the sea-fishing
reel mounted on Maunie’s aft rail. Between us, what we know about ocean fishing
could be written on a matchbox so there was not much confidence of a result, it
must be said.
35 minutes later, though, the reel started screaming so we wound in the
150m line to land a beautiful 4lb Dorado. A shot of cheap vodka into its gills
finished it off in a humane way and Fergus ‘Robson Green’ McDonald gutted and
filleted it very expertly. So we’re looking forward to our fish supper.
From now on blog entries won’t have as many photos, due to limits on sat
phone data for each month, but we’ll try to add a few special ones as we go.
We’ll still aim to update the blog with a story each day.
IMG_1448 (640x480)
Previous
|
Next